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Originally Posted by morninggents
Back in the 1960s at club level we used white fablon rectangles (with corners 'rounded') cut from large rolls purchased at hardware stores. We cut individual numbers from a roll of black fablon having made cardboard templates of numbers from 0 to 9. Just about every race meeting was a different number but we peeled the old numbers off and stuck them lightly to the underneath of the bootlid to save for future use. Tightfisted, I know, but pennies were worth something back in the day.
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As morninggents says, we sometimes used stick on numbers, but on occasions we used the services of a signwriter that would normally be on duty at sign-on time. This would usually happen when we didn't know what our race number would be for that day, as in the days before the interweb, we might not know until we turned up for the race day.